Forum: Churchianity Archive

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In light of the Membership in the local church thread, I have some questions about the church for anyone who would answer: Is the term "church" found within scripture? Is the visable church the ekklesia? What do the sheep/goats and the wheat/tares signify? What is being referred to...

Please study the attached document for a rather simple diagram of the manifestation of the Great Apostasy throughout Christian history. Commentary to follow. This should dispel the 3 great myths of the whore being merely one entity: Preterism (Judaism), Historicism (Roman Catholicism), and Futurism...

Below is a brief snippet from R. C. Sproul. Sproul, a professional clergyman to say the least is very careful of the wording and sentence structures he uses to infer false ideas and half truths to convey his false message. Can anyone detect the false messages? I will make comment shortly in the...

Wildboar claimed: "As for the, "Is there a church which is faithful enough for me to attend?" question, I believe that for most the answer is yes. Although I am not a member, I believe that the LCMS for instance would be faithful enough for me to attend if other options were not available and...

Just in case you have an extra week of vacation time above and beyond what you might use going to the P-Net conference this year, I have a suggestion for you that just might be the place that you would like spend that highly treasured extra week off at. http://www.theholylandexperience.com/ :D

Wow. I am amazed by some of the reformed churches in my area. I have for the last year been trying to find a church that I feel teaches the most Truth about Christ. Mind you no church is perfect, it is full of sinners but I would think there would be a group who gets the majority of the Gospel...

1 Corinthians 3:10,11 "According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." ...

In a recent issue of Proclamation magazine (pp. 6-9), Dr. Rick Langer of Biola University in California published an article on the "Christian Family Tree:" http://lifeassuranceministries.org/Proclamation2007_MayJun.pdf These views were also presented at the Former Seventh-day Adventist...

Many are aware that Lutherans include a time of confession during their service followed by a pronouncement of absolution by the pastor. They do not require but also encourage (at least some of them) private absolution where a person meets with the pastor to tell him about sins that are...

Once again, I have questioned the doctrinal statement of a church and have received a response that in essence may be summarized as: "Why don't you attend before you pass judgment?" What is meant by that? Does it mean that the individual churches DO NOT teach (or actually hide) the errors...

This will be a limited and special thread. 1. Only those who believe in the institutional, organized church on earth as the EKKLESIA that Christ founded may respond (except for facilitators). 2. Responses are limited only to answering my question, not to any further discussion beyond that....

Okay.. so I didn't want to sidetrack the experience thread I think it would have some if I posted this there.. but there is a comment here from what Charles said over in the other thread. But I wanted to respond to some of Lutherans doctrinal statements.. I was reading over their website and...

This thread will be a discussion of what I had hoped would be generated in the "New Covenant Heretics" thread in the Predestinarian Doctrine forum. I have moved it to Ecclesiology because maybe (?) it more appropriately belongs here. When I introduced the issue in the other thread, I quoted...

I reread this post this morning:My questions to all of you are: 1. Who is the pharisee in this day and age? 2. Does blind adherence w/out question to creeds like the WCF (See Bob's teaching at:http://www.predestinarian.net/showthread.php?t=3775) constitute "phariseeism"? 3. Who and what is...

I am trying to compile all of the Reformed/Presbyterian/Anglican confessions I can find to compare what the teach concerning the meaning of baptism. I have attached a file which shows what I have so far. Unfortunately in some cases I have had to rely on confessions as they are quoted by other...